Just as a reminder, we mentioned in the previous article that the Arabs had rejected Resolution 181 issued on 11/29/1947 by the League of United Nations, which stipulated the formation of two states, a Jewish state and an Arab state. The League of Arab States issued a decision to eliminate Israel and throw them into the sea. The Arabs sent their armies to Israel on May 16, 1948, but all the Arab countries that participated in the war suffered a terrible defeat, which the Arabs later recorded as the “Nakba.”
In the year 1956, after the nationalization of the Suez Canal, Abdel Nasser prevented Israeli ships from passing through it. At the same time, he closed the Strait of Tiran to Israeli navigation to tighten the economic stranglehold on Israel in preparation for striking it with the final blow, as he used to say, by throwing it into the sea. Abdel Nasser also made the Sinai region a military zone for the Palestinian forces, which were infiltrating into Gaza and from there into Israel to carry out terrorist and sabotage operations against Israel.
In the face of this, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike on October 29, 1956. Within five days, the entire Sinai was under the control of the Israeli forces, and Rafah, Al-Arish, and all of Gaza fell into the hands of the Israeli army.
Canada submitted a proposal to the United Nations to send international forces to stop the war and ensure the continuation of navigation in the Suez Canal. Egypt agreed to Canada’s proposal on the condition that the country’s forces do not include British or French forces.
Egypt did not issue any document on the number of people killed or injured in the battle, but some Western sources estimated that the number of deaths was about 3,500 dead and about 900 injured. In addition to about 1,000 civilians, most of whom died in the city of Port Said.
Despite the heavy losses in lives, equipment, and property that Egypt incurred in this war, Abdel Nasser emerged with images of the victorious hero. This did not matter to Israel as much as it achieved the main goal of the war, which was opening the Strait of Tiran corridors to navigation to and from Israel.
Israel withdrew from all the lands it had occupied on the condition that the Strait of Tiran be opened to navigation to and from Israel and that terrorist operations from the Sinai region be halted, and Egypt committed to that.
The international forces continued in the Suez Canal to preserve global navigation until the year 1967, when Abdel Nasser once again began to harass Israel. He withdrew the international forces from the Suez Canal and closed the Strait of Tiran once again to Israeli navigation. The war began, and the sheikhs in the mosques began urging the youth to war and wishing them certain victory that Israel will be wiped out of existence, and the time has come to fulfill Abdel Nasser’s promise to throw the Jews into the sea.
At the same time, Syria and Jordan were preparing and mobilizing for war in public, and the entire Arab and Islamic world was even preparing for what would happen to the Jews.
On June 5, 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike on the three fronts: Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Israel won a crushing victory on all three fronts, destroyed the Syrian army, and occupied the Golan Heights, from which Syria was throwing the northern Israeli cities.
Israel also destroyed the Jordanian army and occupied Samaria.
Also destroyed the Egyptian army and occupied Gaza and the entire Sinai desert, reaching the eastern border of the Suez Canal. Then Israel built the impenetrable Barlev wall, which was said to be impossible to penetrate.
Just as the Arabs called the defeat of 1948 the Nakba, the defeat of 1967 was called the Naksa.
The two-state solution appeared on the horizon once again, according to the United Nations Resolution No. 181 issued on November 29, 1947, for life in peace and security, but the Arabs refused, and Abdel Nasser was invited to a summit meeting to unify the Arab position on Israel. Arab presidents and kings met in Khartoum Sudan and the Arab Summit Conference unanimously issued what was known for the Three No’s: No reconciliation…No negotiations…No recognition…of Israel.
The same idea and the same insistence on eliminating Israel, denying their right to life, and throwing them into the sea, of course, with the same thought and concept that is taught until now in the institution of his religion in the Arab and Islamic world, as Dr. Souad Saleh, professor of Islamic law at Al-Azhar University, said, meaning if we fought Israel and won.. Surat Al-Isra gives good news of this…the women prisoners of war are the king of Yemen, meaning that in order to humiliate them…the Muslim has the right to enjoy them as he enjoys his wives. Women’s Jurisprudence Program / Dr. Souad Saleh / What is meant by the King of Yemen / Episode 12\9\2014.
In the year 1970, the leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, the pioneer and founder of Arab nationalism, died, and Sadat came with a thought completely contrary to the Arab nationalist socialist thought of Abdel Nasser. Sadat did not have a thought with which to resist Abdel Nasser’s thought, except the extremist religious thought represented by the thought of the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdel Nasser’s greatest enemies, so he released them from prisons. He gave them all possible support to destroy progressive Nasserite thought. He declared that he is a Muslim president of a Muslim country and a Muslim people. He announced that he would make the Christians in Egypt shoe polishers. In his late days, he even removed the Coptic Pope, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, and restricted his residence in the monastery.
Egypt began to transform into an Islamic fundamentalist state, and the Muslim Brotherhood organization in Egypt began to form armed terrorist groups to change the shape and life of the Egyptian street. They raised the slogan “Islam is the solution,” and Egypt declined socially, economically, and politically from that date until the beginning of the 1973 war.
Truth be told, but anyone who studies the events of the 1973 war in its details knows full well that it is another terrible defeat for the Arab armies, but the forged history that turned it into a victory that the Arabs have changed to this day.
In the next article, we will follow the details of the 1973 war and its consequences and consequences… See you in the next article.